MAJOR NEW PUBLICATION about the work of ALAIN-MARTIN RICHARD

Alain-Martin Richard

Performances, manœuvres et autres hypothèses de disparition

Performances, Manoeuvres and other Hypotheses for Disappearing

Edited by Paul Couillard and Alexandra Liva

Published by FADO Performance Inc., Sagamie édition d'art, Les Causes perdues in©

414 pp, with index

Including DVD documentation of The Route To Rose project (2006)

Regular price: $40 (plus shipping)

SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE: $35

Dive into the unique creative journey of artist Alain-Martin Richard with the launch of an impressive new bilingual monograph. In this book, authors Paul Couillard, Doyon/Demers, Hélène La Roche, Paul Ouellet, Nicolas Reeves, Clive Robertson, Guy Sioui Durand and Marianne Trudel join Alain-Martin Richard to provide a comprehensive picture of Richard's career and practice, from his theatrical experiments of the 1970s to his global "manoeuvres" in the 2000s.

The evening is the culmination of several years of work by its co-publishers, Paul Couillard for FADO and Nicholas Pitre for SAGAMIE. Come join Alain-Martin Richard, editor Paul Couillard and publisher FADO as we celebrate this important occasion.

ABOUT ALAIN-MARTIN RICHARD

Alain-Martin Richard lives and works in Quebec. As an artist, he has presented manoeuvre and performance works in North America, Europe and Asia. He also works as a curator, critic and essayist, publishing articles in numerous journals on theatre, performance, installation and manoeuvre. He was a member of the former collectives Inter/Le Lieu and The Nomads , and remains active with Les Causes perdues in© and Folie/Culture. His works often deploy multiple planes of reality as in l'Atopie textuelle (2000) and The Route to Rosa (2006). Alain-Martin Richard is currently a visiting professor at Laval University's School of Visual Arts. His most recent manoeuvre project, Le bloc que j'habite, was just presented at the seventh edition of Manif d'art.

Alain-Martin Richard: Performances, manœuvres et autres hypothèses de disparition/ Performances, Manoeuvres and other Hypotheses for Disappearing is published by FADO in collaboration with SAGAMIE édition d’art and Les Causes perdues in©.

ISBN 978-0-9730883-3-5 (FADO)

ISBN 978-2-923612-38-6 (SAGAMIE)